Improvement in tooth-pick machines



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NAPETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.'

LEONARD ANDERSON, OE PAINESVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOOTH-PICK MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,896, dated April l1, 1876; application led February 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEONARD ANDERSON, of Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Tooth-Pick Machines, of which the following isa specification:

vThe invention consists of a couple of veneercutters, one on each of the two opposite sides of the mandrel carrying the rotating block, and a splitting-wheel for splitting the veneers into the picks, geared with the mandrel which revolves the block in such manner that the cutters and the splitting-wheel move up to the block in the same measure that it is reduced by the cutters, thus automatically cutting the blocks into picks, without further attention, after the block is put on the mandrel. Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved machine, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section.

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A is the mandrel on which the block B is carried against the veneer-cutter C, being bored through the center and fitted on the mandrel and screwed up tight by a nut, D The cutters (l slide up to the blocks from opposite sides on the bed E, being carried on the slides F, and worked by the right-andleft feed-screw G, which also moves down the opposite veneer-cutters C C, and the splitter i H, the mandrel-cutters and splitter being connected and operated as shown and described, whereby the machine is made to adjust its splitter and cutters as the blank is cut away, thus automatically completing the whole operation.

LEONARD ANDERSON.

Witnesses PERRY BoswoETE, J. B. BURRoWs.` 

